Trophy vs Loof - What's the difference?
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An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement.
An object taken as a prize by a hunter or conqueror, especially one that is displayed.
* Dryden
Any emblem of success; a status symbol.
(criminology, by extension) An object taken by a serial killer or rapist as a memento of the crime.
* 1994 , Philip Jenkins, Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide [http://books.google.com/books?id=nhXmk3Tm-SQC], ISBN 0202305252, page 117:
* 2001 , R. Michael Gordon, Alias Jack the Ripper: Beyond the Usual Whitechapel Suspects [http://books.google.com/books?id=n5PWnVtQs4MC], ISBN 0786408987, page 82:
* 2004 , Ronald F. Becker, Criminal Investigation [http://books.google.com/books?id=YDGaGSdjc6kC], ISBN 0763731684, page 168:
(anatomy, now, chiefly, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The palm of the hand.
(anatomy, now, chiefly, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The hand, especially, the hand outspread and upturned.
(nautical, obsolete) A contrivance (apparently a paddle or an oar) used for altering the course of a ship.
(nautical) The after part of the bow of a ship where the sides begin to curve.
The spongy fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa aegyptiaca ).
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between trophy and loof
is that trophy is tropæum while loof is the palm of the hand.trophy
English
Noun
(trophies)- He won the trophy in a running competition.
- Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, / And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, / And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars.
- The set of antlers which hung on the wall was his prized trophy .
- His trophies included his second wife, his successful children, the third and fourth homes in Palm Beach and Malibu, his three yachts (for the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean), his jet, and his mistresses.
- The souvenirs which many killers retain of their victims are often described as trophies , and Norman Bates's taxidermic interests derived from the real-life Ed Gein.
- A trophy from this murder would have been of great importance.
- The offender is also likely to mentally relive his killings, often with the help of souvenirs or trophies , such as a bracelet or a body part taken from the victim.